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"And, by-the-by, Emily and Harriett will be neglecting their music, and I engaged to see to that so long as I remained in Victoria, as Miss Melville knows no music."

From Mr. Hogarth's Will by Spence, Catherine Helen

“But it will be neglecting his other studies,” cried my aunt.

From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous